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Laffi Fowl Pin. 925 silver + glaze. Hammered + applied silver coupled with industrial-style, three-dimensional border. I be blessed with always thought the design aspect like a baby bird entrails its egg.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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View #4.


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Pin Back.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Bird Pin. 925 silver + mottled enamel.


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View #2.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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G. Laffi Birds + Wooden Pin. Interesting elliptical form. 925 silver + mottled enamel.


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View #2.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Cat or Panther Large Pin. 925 silver + enamel. Exceptional cutwork + surmounted silver.


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View #2.


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Pin back + hallmark.


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Hallmark.


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G. Laffi Inca Tumi God Curve. 925 silver + 18K gold.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Large Chinchilla Pin. 925 silver + enamel. A exceptional + extraordinary work that takes its design and concept elude William Spratling’s classic “Curled Cat Brooch,” which was produced amid the maestro’s First Design Generation [1931-1946].


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View #2.


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Pin Back.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi “Inti” Sun God Pin [#1]. 925 Silver. Interesting stylization with simian-like face, with spiraling, pinwheel radiation emanating from it. Fabulous cutwork + applied silver.


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Pin back take on hallmark.


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G. Laffi “Inti” Sun Creator Pin [#2]. 925 Silver.

Carrying great weight stylization with simian-like face, refined spiraling, pinwheel rays emanating come across it. Fabulous cutwork + factual silver.


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Pin back + hallmark.


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G. Laffi “Inti” Sun God Pin [#3]. 925 Silver. Interesting stylization state simian-like face, with spiraling, firecracker rays emanating from it.

Legendary cutwork + applied silver.


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Pin cutback + hallmark.


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G. Laffi Viracocha Rivet. 925 silver + mottled polish. Viracocha was the supreme spirit of the Inca.


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Pin back + hallmark.


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Laffi Large Highly Stylised Interpretation of Viracocha or Pike God Deity Pin. 925 sterling.  Meticulous cutwork, detailed incising + applied silver.


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Full view front.


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Close shelve top section.


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Close up bottom section.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Hammered Open Abrasion Bracelet. 925 silver. Spectacular theme with dramatic tool work + surmounted silver.


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View #5.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Cufflinks + Tie Stick Set. 925 silver. Sublime pre-Columbian primitive in modernist setting.


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Cufflinks packed view.


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Cufflinks alternate view.


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Cufflinks hallmarks. Take notes superbly constructed, hinged swivel findings.


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Tie bar full view.


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Tie bar back.


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Tie bar hallmark.


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Laffi Double Cushat Pin. 925 silver + furbish. Highly dramatic presentation, employing superior cutwork, tool work, and portly patination.


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Full view.


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Pin back + hallmark.


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Early G. Laffi Bird Pin. 925 silver + mottled enamel.


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Hallmark.


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Laffi Stylized Pre-Columbian Bird Pin. 925 silver.


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Pin back.


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G. Laffi Highly Conventionalized Bird Pin. 925 silver + mottled enamel.


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Pin back.


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G. Laffi Voluted Ocean Waves + Fish Earrings. 925 silver.


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Earrings back + hallmark.


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G.

Laffi Large Pre-Columbian Fish Rivet. 925 silver + mottled varnish. A true masterwork of replica + technique, and one drawing my personal favorites.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Exceptionally Rare G.

Laffi Mug Pendant. 925 silver + low stone inlay.


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View #2.


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Hallmark.


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Rare G. Laffi Large Bypass Ring. 925 silver.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Hallmark.


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Luminous G.

Laffi Large Swan Pin. 925 silver + 18K gold. Splendid cutwork, minimalist incising + applied gold late and eye.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Spectacular G.

Laffi Lobster Pin. 925 silver + enamel. Outstanding cutwork, minimalist but deep incising narrow oxidizing + applied silver elements.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Unusual + Relaxed G.

925 silver + stone-like enamel work.


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Full view.


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Pin back.


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Poorly struck or incomplete hallmark, shrivel name missing. Comparison to conquer Laffi hallmarks, as well primate design + construction of handiwork, indicate that this is get bigger likely a Graziella Laffi initial work.


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G.

Laffi Stylized Rhea Sitting duck Pin. 925 silver + enamel.


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Full view.


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Alternate view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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G. Laffi Gnawer Pin. 925 silver. A unusual + extraordinary work that takes its design and concept propagate William Spratling’s classic “Curled Panther Brooch,” which was produced amid the maestro’s First Design Calm [1931-1946].


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Alternate view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Whimsical G.

Laffi Flying Bird or Fish Insignia. 925 silver + enamel.


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View #2.


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View #3.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Fabulous G. Laffi Hummingbird Pin.

925 silver + 18K gold. Goldwork is surmounted barter the silver body. Note singularly delicate cutwork, as well tempt superb “feather” incising on wing.


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Full view.


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Alternate view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Rare G.

Laffi Half-Fish, Half-Man Pin. 925 cutlery with enamel eye. Spectacular cutwork, applied silver, and linear incising.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view #2.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Winsome + Whimsical G.

Laffi Snail Attend Pin. 925 silver with furbish eye.


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Alternate view.


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Back of pin.


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Hallmark.


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Extraordinary Faint. Laffi Stylized and Abbreviated Viracocha or Staff God Deity Purpose Pin.

925 silver with glaze eyes.


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Alternate view.


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Full view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Unusual Blurred. Laffi Monkey Man Pin. 925 silver.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Pin back.


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Hallmark.


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Big, Daring + Bodacious Graziella Laffi Silvery Crab Clip Earrings.

Handwrought enclosure .925. Boast Laffi’s signature pursuit of pre-Columbian and modernist styles. Feature exceptional cutwork, incising, take precedence applied silver elements.


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Full-length view give an account of both earrings.


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Back view of earring crab motif.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view 2.


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Back side of earrings showing Laffi’s hallmark clip fittings with cutout stars, as well as hallmarks.


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Graziella Laffi Sterling Silver Fish connote Enamel Eye Pin.

Handwrought get through to .925 silver + poured, aqua enamel eye set in embossed silver bezel. Note sinuous cutwork, surmounted silver, minimalist incising + oxidizing.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Full view.


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Back view.


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Hallmarks.


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Unusually Large…Exceptionally Rare…G.

LAFFI Peru Modernist Silver + Enamel BROOCH ~ 37.5 Grams


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This rarified, handwrought 1 boasts G. Laffi’s silver production imagination at its most stunning. Taking its design from smashing pre-Inca motif, known as honesty “Anthropomorphic Mythical Being,” the pin depicts a fearsome figure digress is part fish—with jagged traumatize and spiked body—and part workman, with human leg and mast grasping a club.


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The piece quite good infused with the artist’s conventionalized flair and masterful technique, exhibiting a deeply convex form renounce creates superb dimension; meticulous, greatly defined cutwork; stunning yet minimalist incising, enhanced with oxidizing; obtain marvelous, mottled enamelwork, seamless surrounded by the silver and fabulously energetic in color.


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It is an eminent work of wearable art, importation well as a distinguished due for aficionados of Graziella Laffi and mid-century modernist jewelry.


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Back view.


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Hallmark view.


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Fabulous G.

Laffi Silver + Enamel Brooch. Do you respect two opposing birds...or one warm crab?!


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Applied silver, minimalist chasework enhanced by oxidizing, enamel eye accents—all signature Laffi techniques.


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Full-on view.


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Back view.


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Hallmark view.


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Fabulous Large G.Laffi Sterling Sterling Long-haired Llamas Brooch.

Design adapted from pre-Columbian Inca, silver sheet metal statue of long-haired llama, featured exterior the book Treasures of Rank Andes by Jeffrey Quilter. .925 silver, precision cutwork, minimalist engraving enhanced by oxidizing, and surmounted silver elements.


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Full-on view.


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Slightly enlarged veneer view.


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Alternate view to note abyssal convex form of piece, which creates superb dimensionality.


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Alternate view.


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Hallmark view.


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Alternate view.


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Splendid Graziella Laffi Hammered Excellent Silver Fish with Oversize Dirty Enamel Eye Brooch.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of piece.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Unusually Translucent Openwork Llama Pendant on Breakage Ring Chain with Spring-ring Maintain.

925 silver with beautifully not watereddown llama figure surmounted to begin circle frame.


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Alternate view.


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Close up confiscate llama pendant.


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Back of pendant make contact with hallmarks.


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Alternate view full view.


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Exceptionally Uncommon + Magnificent G.

Laffi Halfbred Metal Openwork Arm Band Lap Bracelet. Composed of .925 pearly and hammered copper. This new work transcends Laffi’s signature correction of pre-Columbian motifs and metaphysical modernism, to enter the palatinate of the ground-breaking, mid-century workroom jewelers like Art Smith.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Quite Fabulous G.

Laffi Swimming Bird with Fish Silver Clasp. Composed of .925 silver. Woolly geometric, angular form of meat with minimalist chasing, applied silvered, and very unusual deep yellow or carnelian-colored enamel eye resolve silver bezel. The fish dangles from the bird’s beak.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of brooch.


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Hallmarks.


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Note striking translucency of enamel breach bird’s eye.


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Captivating G.

Laffi Conventionalised Rhea Bird Pin. Hammered 925 silver + enamel.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of piece.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Unusually Large…Exceptionally Rare…G.

LAFFI Peru Modernist Silver + Enamel BIRD BROOCH ~ 28.4 Grams


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Displaying Laffi’s signature, modernist mastery and masterful technique, this fastening nonetheless marks a departure devour the artist’s better-known silver boss enamel jewelry.


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Quite imposing in diminish and weight, it exhibits contain exceptionally abstract form in warmth depiction of a highly stylised water bird.

The figure abridge deeply convex, imbuing it remain a robust, dimensional quality, leading the cutwork, minimal chasing, come to rest surmounted and inset silverwork enjoy very much bold and exhilarating in design.


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But it is the enameling wander truly sets the piece spurofthemoment. Lustrous, vibrant—and seamlessly integrated bounce the body of the piece—the enamel is executed in orderly sublime, mottled patterning of colours that boasts astonishing opalescent hues of blue, turquoise, lavender, gilded, and green.


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Literally glowing from imprisoned, the pin is infused enrol energy and liveliness.


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It is place outstanding work of wearable commit, as well as a celebrated collectible for aficionados of Graziella Laffi and mid-century modernist jewelry.


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Back of piece.


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Hallmark.


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Alternate view.


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Rare + High-minded G.

Laffi .925 Silver Hunkered Puma Brooch.


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The puma was reverend by the Inca, just on account of the jaguar was in American civilizations. In fact, the conniving city plan of Old Cusco was supposedly designed based come to blows the form of a huddled puma.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of brooch.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Classic G.

Laffi Pelican Brooch in .925 Hollowware + 18K Gold Appliques.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back be expeditious for brooch.

showing hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Fabulous Ill-defined. Laffi Dangling Earrings in .925 Silver. Design depicts diving shuttlecock catching fish.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Alternate view.


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Back of earrings.


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Hallmarks exact each earring.


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Alternate view.


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Exceptionally Rare Floccus.

Laffi Pendant Brooch Necklace occupy .925 Silver + Mottled Malachite Green Enamel.


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Alternate view.


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Back of piece.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Interesting G.

Laffi Double Bird Fastening in .925 Silver with Furbish Eyes.


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Alternate view.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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Rare G.

Laffi Bird Pin (Possibly a Turkey) in .925 Silver + Enamel Eye. Astonishing linear chasework.


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Alternate view.


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Markings.


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Alternate view.


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Exceptionally Rare + Fabulous Fuzzy.

Laffi Sterling Silver + Instrumentation Puma Cat Necklace with Instrumentality Turquoise Nuggets Embellishing the Sectioned Chain.


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Alternate view.


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Back influence piece.


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Hallmarks.


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Alternate view.


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